Risk Analyst (Junior) - Sandton at Discovery Limited

Overall Job Purpose

This job function will align with the requirements as per the Risk plan, aligning to the Enterprise Risk Management framework. The risk analyst will report to the Vitality Head of Risk.

Outputs and Accountabilities

Assist the Head of Risk with the following:

• Conduct risk assessments/workshops, deep dives, and ad hoc risk investigations to help the business identify and mitigate risks. Follow up on these and all actions until closure.
• Compilation and distribution of reports - technical debt, action tracker, quarterly risk report, TCF, including adhoc requests
• Risk incident activities - assisting business processes to follow the risk incident process, as well as critical review of risk incidents logged to ensure accuracy of information (root cause analysis, actions, and information).
• Barn Owl - logging of incidents and risks as well as extraction of information when requested.
• Project risk management – oversight, risk assessment involvement as and when required
• Work with other BU risk officers and group risk management to ensure alignment on risk and DLP activities and sharing of knowledge.
• Identify relationships and dependencies between risks
• Facilitate the flow of risk information from Vitality into Group Risk Management as and when requested (Risk incidents, Barn Owl updates, etc)
• Prepare and present reports/assessments as requested (risk, technical debt, DLP).
• Provide ongoing support, education, and training on the risk management principles throughout the business as and when required.
• Review any outputs, information gathering, research, compilation of report/assessments, undertake any other work as required by the Risk Manager from time to time.
• TCF duties as required
• Monitoring and reporting of all material risks to and from the relevant committees/management forums. This includes, but not limited to, the following:
• Attending project steercoms, and any relevant business forums (e.g., ISO, Compliance, IM)
• DLP - Perform tasks required to ensure the effective maintenance of Vitality’s Data Loss Prevention function. Daily investigations, escalations, interactions with the Vitality ISO and DLP SME’s across the group, ticket logging, and report preparation and distribution. Presenting DLP reports to POPIA Steercom on a regular basis.

Qualifications and Experience

• A degree is essential – B Com or equivalent
• 2+ years in risk management or compliance

Skills

• Must be a good communicator with excellent writing skills
• Must be able to critically evaluate business information
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills
• Strong organisation skills
• Must be able to work autonomously and within a team
• Must be able to manage stakeholders effectively
• Excel and PowerPoint
• Power BI advantageous

Technical IT skills advantageous

Attributes

• Professionally minded, constructive, business and goal orientated
• Adaptability; maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in personal work tasks or the work environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures
• Good networking skills
• Committed to continuous learning and development (self and business)